The Significance of the Frontier in American History

neighborhood where her sister lives in California. In the Book of Unknown Americans, one of the narrators briefly inform the readers how people reside according to what ethnicity they belong to. Regarding English as one of the abstract borders the immigrants have to…

single southern state. He also did not win the popular vote during the election. President Lincoln’s legacy has a positive impact on American society. Everything did not come easy for President Lincoln while he was in office from 1861-1865. Abraham Lincoln faced many obstacles and challenges during his presidency and yet he still was able to leave a positive impact on American society. “This Lincoln’s flaws make him seem even even…

sources from historians and journalists, I will prove that farmers were struggling under pressure from the federal United States government. Mary Heaton writes about the struggles of the average farmer in the midwest, specifically Iowa. Heaton was an American journalist and activist during the Great Depression. She wrote “Rebellion in the Cornbelt” as a result of her experiences in visiting Family in Sioux City, Iowa. She starting writing out of habit and to spread the struggles of the people…

In the 19th century, territorial expansion played an important role in the United States. The American people adopted an audacious attitude believing that they had a divine obligation to stretch their boundaries from the east coast to the west coast. In 1845 an editor and prominent democratic politician, John L. O’Sullivan, published an article on the annexation of Texas identifying the imperialistic endeavors of the U.S. with the phrase: Manifest Destiny. He stated, “Our manifest destiny is to…

It witnessed Fredrick Jackson Turner’s The Significance of the Frontier in American History as well as Fredrick Douglas, who used his platform to present a speech that both indicted Columbus and criticized the fair (McGarry 10/2016). The White City was seen as the epitome of western civilization. For the first time…

contributed the most to the making of Texas were the merchants and land lawyers. David Montejano states “I will focus on the least romantic and colorful, the merchants and land lawyers. I focus on them because I wish to explain the ‘making of Texas”, a history of market penetration and development that cannot be related without these characters. In fact, the ‘winning’ of the West, of which the Mexican War was part, would be incomprehensible without merchants and lawyers” (page 15). In…

space shuttle program, but used rhetoric to mask his neglect for American jobs. The Case For Space is an article Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote for the Council on Foreign Relations in 2012 that is a more detailed backbone upon which his address to the Senate is based upon. Similar to his speech, Tyson gives several examples of how increasing NASA’s budget would have a positive impact on the economy. One of those examples is the massive American job growth opportunity. After talking about the effects…

CRE 312 Digital Photography Assignment 1# Critical Analysis of Two Photographers By Philip Langlois wolfjpl@gmail.com Date Due: 03/11/15 The history of photography can be traced back to the camera obscura which is a box with a pinhole through which light travels and reflects off a mirror showing the image. The invention of modern photography can trace its roots back to Niepce who took what would be the first photograph in 1827 using a pewter plate. People would improve upon Daguerre’s idea…

domination of WWII and the improvement of the American frontier. Although the WWII also referred to as the Second World War, led to many devastating news in many regions, it caused prosperity and growth in the American society culturally and socially. The United States of America was officially part of the Second World War after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 (Kennedy 824). The shocking attack on Pearl Harbor triggered American unity like ever before (Kennedy…

speech of inspiration. Kennedy has a bold attitude of confidence while giving the speech in a direction to conciliate the crowd of Americans, and propel them in to immediate activity. Kennedy’s unusual charisma, and uses of rhetorical approach, parallelism, and a shifting yet fickle sentence structure. Allows his speech to still be read and analyzed by many Americans even today. Kennedy used this style of speech while captivating America and for filling his goals while serving his term of…